How to protect yourself from getting malaria
This guide teaches you how to protect themselves from malaria when traveling to the tropics. As the author has successfully tried some of these precautions in malarious areas of the world they are particularly suitable for medium to low risk situations.
Instructions DIFFICULTIES 1
1.Before leaving you equipped in this way: spraying the solution of Permethrin on clothing, is a poisonous substance for the cold-blooded animals (like insects), it is harmless to warm-blooded ones (like us): You can find it in pharmacies in packs of one liter (BioKill for example). Remember to spray good socks and the bottom of the pants, the mosquitoes tend to bite ankles.
2. Once you arrive on site the following precautions: protect yourself as soon as the sun sets with long sleeves and repellent on exposed parts, especially feet and ankles. Before going to bed turn a fumigator in the room, preferably used those bought on the spot, if you can find.
But the most important thing is to spend hours of the night under the mosquito net impregnated. For we have seen that in the first part of the night leaving the Anopheles mosquitoes that young people are less infected than older people, which ones come out at night.
3.Quieste precautions were, in my personal experience, enough to protect yourself from getting malaria also remain for several weeks in areas such as Bandundu infestatissime, a region of Congo Kinshasa, where people take malaria banbini so often to stay average small and thin. But the 100% security does not exist in medicine that if, despite having followed these instructions, you get a fever you examine the "thick drop" (in French goutte épaisse, thick drop in English) and, if the results positive, follow the directions of your doctor or local health workers. Necessary
* Permethrin Solution
* Insect repellent (tropical)
* Coils
* Mosquito nets impregnated
* Doxycycline tablets
* Health Insurance
* Where appropriate antimalarial second doctor's opinion
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